Amanda Novotny is president of Siouxland Freethinkers, East River media representative for the South Dakota Coalition of Reason and treasurer of the Brookings Freethinkers. She became an active, vocal atheist …
Day: October 30, 2014
Susan Galloway & Linda Stephens
“The View from Under the Bus” SUSAN GALLOWAY is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has worked most of her career in long-term care, specifically with people …
Sean Carroll
SEAN CARROLL is a theoretical physicist with the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He earned his undergraduate degree from Villanova University and his P.D in Astrophysics from …
Marci Hamilton
‘What is Wrong with Extreme Religious Liberty’ MARCI HAMILTON is a leading state/church scholar who holds the Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, …
Donald C. Johanson
DONALD C. JOHANSON is an internationally known paleoanthropologist who discovered the fossil of a female hominid australopithecine known as “Lucy” in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974. He …
FFRF raises multiple constitutional issues in Okla. school district
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national state/church watchdog, has contacted Skiatook Public Schools, Okla., to protest several state/church violations reported by a district family. Among the allegations: District schools …
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Sixth place (tie): Michael Hakeem Memorial College Essay Contest by Anvita Patwardhan
Refusing to shut up and believe Anvita received $400 for her essay. By Anvita Patwardhan One day in class as we were discussing the afterlife and salvation, I asked my …
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Sixth place (tie): Michael Hakeem Memorial College Essay Contest by Aaron McLaughlin
Witnessing door to door no more Aaron received $400 for his essay. By Aaron McLaughlin Acts 17:11, in which the inhabitants of Berea are praised for examining the evidence before …
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Fifth place (tie): Michael Hakeem Memorial College Essay Contest by Marcus Andrews
Working for human(ist) rights FFRF awarded Marcus $500 for his essay. By Marcus Andrews I certainly wasn’t “raised atheist,” as countless people ask me, either out of contempt or ignorance. …
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